- Location: Kassel , Germany
- Work Policy: Remote-first within Germany; optional office days; not advertised as fully remote internationally
- Work Experience: Several years in a CTO/VP Engineering (or similar) role within FinTech or banking
- Language Requirement: English C1, German C1
- Employment Type: Full-time
- Technical Skills Required: Engineering Management, Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), REST/GraphQL APIs, data analytics & AI/ML stacks, banking security & compliance frameworks
- Industry: FinTech/Data Analytics for Banking
- Positions Available: 1
Company Mission
Account transaction data reflects the entirety of a customer’s life—we help our partners understand this data quickly, easily, and efficiently, and leverage it profitably.
Core Values
Scope to Shape Your Role:
High level of personal responsibility, open communication, active involvement in shaping the business, and a motivated, success-oriented team
Flexible Work:
Remote-first with hybrid options, flexible working hours, modern equipment, “workation” opportunities—plus time off on December 24th and 31st
Tech & Innovation:
Modern tech stack and AI-driven culture
Attractive Perks:
Annual bonus, gifts for work anniversaries and milestone birthdays, corporate benefits program, discounted mobile phone plans, company pension contributions exceeding statutory requirements, capital-forming benefits, and automatic salary adjustments at fixed intervals
Health & Mobility:
Commuter pass, bike leasing, and discounted fitness & wellness offers in your city (egym)
Tasks
- You position the company as a pioneer of data-driven business models in Europe and help define how the financial industry of tomorrow will utilize data
- You actively drive the company’s technological vision—ranging from new technologies to entirely new product concepts—while maintaining a consistent customer-centric focus
- You independently conduct sales discussions at the C-level, inspiring decision-makers with your technological foresight and a clear understanding of the business value for them
- You collaborate with our customers to identify new use cases and develop viable business ideas and models based on our existing capabilities
- You own the technology roadmap, prioritizing initiatives clearly and based on data to ensure engineering and product teams focus on the areas that deliver the greatest impact.
- You work closely with our founder and executive leadership as a strategic partner, actively shaping fino’s strategic direction
- You measure the success of your decisions using clear metrics and consistently derive the next steps from those insights
Requirements
- You bring several years of experience in a CTO, VP of Engineering, or comparable technical leadership role, ideally within the FinTech or banking sector
- You possess an entrepreneurial and visionary mindset, a keen sense for emerging technologies, and the ability to independently derive promising business models from them
- You are characterized by a strong hands-on mentality and genuinely enjoy championing and advancing your ideas directly in client discussions
- You communicate clearly and persuasively with clients, your team, and executive management—including at the decision-maker level
- You possess a deep technical understanding of modern cloud architectures, APIs, data analytics, and AI, as well as the security and regulatory requirements of the banking industry
- You are fluent in German and English (negotiation level) and—given our ongoing European expansion—ideally possess additional foreign language skills
Benefits
- Key role in positioning the company as a European pioneer of data-driven business models and significantly shaping the tech vision.
- Direct collaboration with the founder and CEO offers great strategic scope and quick decisions.
- Mixture of technology leadership and customer-centered business development enables high impact right up to your own C-level sales.
- Remote-first with 5 home office days, flexible working hours and workation option creates maximum freedom and work-life balance.
- Modern cloud, API and AI tech stack as well as strong AI culture promote continuous learning and innovation.
- Attractive package: fixed salary, individual annual bonus, 28 vacation days plus December 24th/31st free, job ticket, bike leasing, egym and much more.
- Medium-sized, unbureaucratic environment with regular team events and dog-friendly Kassel office strengthens cohesion and ownership.
Why Work With Them
- Strategic freedom to shape a market-leading FinTech
- Direct impact on European expansion
- Modern AI-first stack
- Remote-first flexibility without corporate red tape
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